A Northern Ireland Under-15 development team are off to Cyprus next week to compete in a UEFA development tournament.
Head coach Michael McClean has chosen a 20-strong panel for games against Cyprus, Hungary and Finland.
The squad will be jetting out to Cyprus on Monday, with the first game scheduled for next Wednesday (27 November).
Hosts Cyprus will be their first opponents and the venue for the game is the Tasos Markou Stadium in Paralimni, a town located on the east coast of Cyprus. The game has an 11am kick-off local time (9am UK time).
Matchday two for Northern Ireland is next Friday (29 Nov) when they will face Hungary at the Municipality Stadium in Liopetri, a village in the east of the country. It also has an 11am start local time.
And they will be at the same venue for their final game of the development tournament on Monday 2 December. Kick-off time for the encounter with Finland is once again 11am local time.
Neil McCafferty will be coaching the team alongside Michael McClean, while the goalkeeping coach is Andy Bell.
The players in the squad, who are all part of the Irish FA’s JD National Performance Programme, are as follows:
Goalkeepers – Matthew Belshaw (Glentoran), Phoenix Blayney (Larne).
Defenders – Bailey Magee and Alfie Pollock (both Glenavon), Preston McKeown (Coleraine), Alfie Mulvenna (Larne), Daniel McCarron (Dungannon Swifts), Daniel Patterson (Glentoran).
Midfielders – Jude Crawford and Daniel Hashim (both Larne), Liam Kelly and Jay McCafferty (both Derry City), Adam Nelson (Glentoran), Lukas Doherty (Finn Harps).
Forwards – Mason Ayre and Jay Forsyth (both Glentoran), Michael Mulholland (Crusaders), Padai O’Kane (Ballymena United), Logan McKnight (Linfield), Odhran McHugh (Finn Harps).
Image: Several of the players travelling to Cyprus next week were part of a Northern Ireland U14 squad that finished runners-up at the Den Bosch International Tournament in the Netherlands back in May.
